{"product_id":"the-heart-a-novel","title":"The Heart: A Novel","description":"One of Bill Gates' \"Five Best Summer Reads\"\n\nThe basis for the critically-acclaimed film, Heal the Living, directed by Katell Quillévéré and starring Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner\n\nAlbertine Prize Finalist\n\nWinner of the Wellcome Book Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize\n\nJust before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating.\n\nThe Heart takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding the resulting heart transplant, as life is taken from a young man and given to a woman close to death. In gorgeous, ruminative prose, it examines the deepest feelings of everyone involved as they navigate decisions of life and death.\n\nAs stylistically audacious as it is emotionally explosive, The Heart mesmerized readers in France, where it has been hailed as the breakthrough work of a new literary star. With the precision of a surgeon and the language of a poet, de Kerangal has made a major contribution to both medicine and literature with an epic tale of grief, hope, and survival.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1250117917\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.1250117917.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:de Kerangal, Maylis|Taylor, Sam\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the inside cover or cover page. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47699710247089,"sku":"RDV.1250117917.VG","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/1250117917-0.jpg?v=1783879176","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/the-heart-a-novel","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}